News,
articles and comment:(This is an old-fashioned "monthly"
magazine. Updates do
appear, but are not frequent.) 1/15/`12: New headlines from
DrudgeObama Leads Nation Towards Disaster on All Fronts

National defense
slashes, economic stagnation, rising gasoline prices and campaign
funding from Hollywood liberals
and the Wall Street he bailed out. This is getting
serious, folks. It isn't just electric cars that nobody wants,
solar
cell companies that go bankrupt after massive government backing, the attempt
to interfere with First
Amendment religious freedom, socialized medicine and both the
mal-treatment of our foreign
friends and kissing the ring fingers of half the terrorists in
the Middle East.

(A campaign bailout
from the banks he and Bush bailed out?)We can give Taiwan to
China and South Korea to North Korea to keep them quiet for a while,
but if two more
major sources of foreign oil follow Iran's moves, and he continues to
block the pipeline from Canada (and stop
oil shale development while the EPA squeezes out coal) -- it's adios
muchacho to the economy. and hello to
Carter-sized gas station lines, another doubling of food stamp
distribution and a skyrocketing national debt..
Do not re-elect any Democrat U.S. Senators this fall. We may need
a
tea party Senate for a double impeachment
to survive if this guy scrapes out a win in 2012.

The
Ascent of ManJanuary, 2012 -- Janus, from which we get the name of our
first month, was the
ancient Roman god of gates. Paleoanthropology is about such a
device.
Many anthropologists don't believe it, but Homo Habilis, the Handy
Man, was the first true human, even if the other LL found the wrong
one. ooEconomy
and Energy, original and x-linksSocialist history repeats itself:At last: How FDR Did it ...
(The secret is bailing out big banks and crushing the small ones.)

(Original works of serious
analysis) Reddy Kilowatt's green brothers take long breaks
...Renewable Energy Costs
Oregon Billions(by Todd Wynn for the Cascade Policy Institute)Green Power Sucksby Larry
Leonard, ThDGasoline is Made of Gold(The
truth about gas prices, Roman roads and freedom)ooo Education:
(Most items held over)
(#2 of Fred's Edu book pieces like the one below due in by Sunday
evening)

Some
of you have doubts about what is happening in our schools:Oregon Teacher Reveals
Flaws in Our Education
A book review by Fred Delkin
What do you get for your school taxes?
What do the kids fail to learn?
What should be done about this problem?
What will happen if this isn't fixed?

And, now, for something entirely different ...000oooThe Tesla Comes With A Tarp!oooo(A holdover from past issues this is the world's only fun electric car. Green, it seems, can be downright race track mean.)Fred Likes the Tesla(It's a snazzy electric car. $109,000, batteries included. Update: Unfortunately, we just discovered in September that this company received "stimulus" funds,which means the survival of the Tesla is in question.)ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe News Desk: (Selected headlines from the internet)

March 22.
2011 -- Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged,
is finally coming to the silver screen. Whether you’ve read the book or
not, you won’t want to miss Part 1 of the film, which debuts around the
country the weekend of April 15-16-17th. So far, the nearest
confirmed theaters are in the Seattle area. You can help bring it to
Portland, or a theater in your city, by “Demanding” it at the link
below. The book was published in 1957, but the producers of the film
have wisely set it in 2016. This way, Americans can see what’s coming
if we don’t turn around the collectivist government in Washington.

Limbaugh
says that this sudden upgrade of the famous judge's intellect in media
which formerly treatedThomas as
moronic is a kind of storm warning pointing the journalistic Left at a
critical target. Also part
of this has to do with the man's wife -- who might provide an
opportunity to force recusal.ooo
A small scale version of the large scale madness ...Government
Fiscal Blueprintby Art Hyland, Contributing EditorHow "fairness" destroyed a small
town in Rhode Island.oooFrom recent issues:

----------------------------------------oooooooooooHistorical
Observations:ooooooooooooooooThe Civil War: our series by
Randy Fletcher, is now a book !!

You
can get it from the History Press, which now has a
western division. Former chapter links in this mag are now
sections in the published history shown here.

The Minister and the General, the Quaker Civil War hero,
Wyatt Earp's brother, the professors in Pickett's Charge, the
Rifle-packin' Reverend Daniel Drew of Portland, it's all there,
and more. http://historypresswest.wordpress.com

OMED: Many early
pieces in Oregon Magazine were written in a version of Netscape Composer
that in modern browsers produces black diamonds with reversed question marks
inside them. These are almost always quotation marks, apostrophes
or dashes. When you
see text that contains those black diamonds, it means I haven't gotten
around to
repairing the problem, yet. Lastly, all
of our early work URL suffixes were "htm." When the
computer gods decided to
change those to "html," problems
arose, but changing the suffix from one to the other may make
the page you want available.

Final Thought: If you
think this magazine is a graphic mess, you should see my garage.
(LL)